[00:49] <Unit193> bluesabre: Around?
[12:21] <ali1234> i just got a new video card and when it puts the monitors in power saving it only turns off two out of three
[12:22] <ali1234> i suspect this is due to a cabling issue
[12:22] <ali1234> but it's weird :)
[12:24] <TJ-> ali1234: swap cables around see if the non-sleeping monitor moves with it
[12:25] <ali1234> i would do, but i bought cables that are exactly the right length, and it is the shortest one that is acting weird
[12:25] <ali1234> it also has loads of ghosting
[12:25] <TJ-> ow :)
[12:25] <ali1234> which i would have expected on the longest one first
[12:25] <ali1234> they are DP to VGA cables
[12:25] <TJ-> connector pins bent, have you checked?
[12:26] <TJ-> DP to VGA requires an active convertor doesn't it? so could be related to drawing power?
[12:26] <ali1234> anyway i just mention it in case anyone sees a similar issue... small chance it's due to my GPU
[12:26] <TJ-> ali1234: seen a lot of cases where pins have been bent or debris in connector blocked the DDC comms
[12:27] <ali1234> i bought brand new cables with the brand new GPU :)
[12:28] <TJ-> ali1234: brand new is often a problem... pins have never been plugged into a recepticle so may be out of line.
[13:15] <ali1234> who made this? https://i.imgur.com/bABrUk8.png
[13:19] <ali1234> there is something wrong with it for sure :(
[13:20] <ali1234> i probably have an old version though
[18:00] <ochosi> ali1234: i (mostly) made it, let me know if there are issues with the latest 4.14.1 release (otherwise i probably won't care ;))
[18:00] <ochosi> but it's - as everything xfsettingsd does - xrandr based
[18:00] <ali1234> well, basically if i ever unplug any monitor, all my monitors turn off
[18:00] <ochosi> so if something doesn't work with xrandr, don't expect the display dialog or xfsettingsd to work any differently
[18:01] <ali1234> if "configure news displays when connected" is set to "off" then the only way to recover my desktop is to restart Xorg
[18:01] <ali1234> however if it is set to on then plugging the monitor back in causes all my monitors to turn on again
[18:02] <ali1234> the setting "automatically enable profiles..." does not seem to do anything at all
[18:02] <ochosi> do you have a saved profile for the current setup?
[18:02] <ochosi> also, there was a bug in this in 4.14.0, hence 4.14.1
[18:02] <ali1234> i tried with and without
[18:02] <ali1234> and i'm still running 18.04
[18:02] <ochosi> so again, if you're not on 4.14.1 i'll stop reading *now* :)
[18:03] <ali1234> so how do i install 4.14.1 on 18.04?